The first thing i did after installing nodebb was remove git and create my own repo to manage my forum as i customized it. The upgrade path is retarded. It should not rely on git for upgrading forums. What sense does it use to run a forum software if i can't keep the code backed up in a source control? The upgrade path should be changed so that there is a simple upgrade script that we run which will fetch the new code, diff and apply the changes. i think that is much better alternative than to rely on git to perform upgrades.

Why didn't you use Twig.js? Twig.js is the fastest template engine in javascript, and also the most powerful. You can look at the design, every possible optimization is made.

@julian no vpn, but several filtering extensions:

https everywhere, ad block plus and ghostery

would appear something is amiss with the plugin site

the browser refuses to serve the insecure request to the nodebb plugin site, so the installation of a plugin fails from the admin interface.

a solution could be to simply add a proxy route to nodebb that will proxy the request to the nodebb plugin site.

I know people hate thread bumpers, but for anyone who wants to self host their own mail server you can try mail in a box. Its free and open source easy to setup mail server.once you get it setup then you can just connect your smtp credentials and start sending mail with it. It should run pretty comfortably on a $5 or $10 vps. the advantage is you also get a fully functional email server so you can have staff email addresses and stuff.